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And there my own dear son, both strong and staunch,
Antilochus—lightning on his feet and every inch a fighter!†
p. 111.1
Thrasymedes, staunch in combat, stood ready,
whetted ax in his grasp to cut the heifer down,
and Perseus held the basin for the blood.†
p. 121.6
"Stranger," the white-armed princess answered staunchly,
"friend, you're hardly a wicked man, and no fool, I'd say—
it's Olympian Zeus himself who hands our fortunes out,
to each of us in turn, to the good and bad,
however Zeus prefers ...
He gave you pain, it seems.†
p. 174.4 *
Or a friend perhaps, someone close to your heart,
staunch and loyal?†
p. 210.8
And I saw Iphimedeia next, Aloeus' wife,
who claimed she lay in the Sea-lord's loving waves
and gave the god two sons, but they did not live long,
Otus staunch as a god and far-famed Ephialtes.†
p. 259.5
Here he married a wife and built a high-roofed house
and sired Antiphates and Mantius, two staunch sons.†
p. 327.2
Wild, reckless taunts—and just as he passed Odysseus
the idiot lurched out with a heel and kicked his hip
but he couldn't knock the beggar off the path,
he stood his ground so staunchly.†
p. 362.1
Staunch Odysseus glowed with joy to hear all this—
his wife's trickery luring gifts from her suitors now,
enchanting their hearts with suave seductive words
but all the while with something else in mind.†
p. 384.9

Definitions:

(1) (staunch as in: a staunch ally)
firm and dependable especially in loyalty
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Staunch can mean water-tight as for a ship that does not leak.

Staunch is also sometimes used, especially in British English, to mean stanch (to stop the flow of something--especially blood).